Lake Shore Eviction Risk: Lower , Myrtle Beach

80% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Horry County average of 44.6%. The dominant input is supply constraint at 10/10.

At $2,450 a month, rents run 94% over what the rest of Myrtle Beach commands. The voucher gap is 74.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.5/10.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. SNAP participation runs 2.9% against 15.2% nationally. Court records carry 95 eviction filings across 5 observed years.

It sits 0.8 points below the Horry County average of 3.8. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2014, when 24.4% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 15.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 5% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

Social vulnerability reads 4.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the SC average is 4.0, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.